Stuffed
Subtitle: an insider's look at who's (really) making America fat
By: Hank Cardello ; with Doug Garr
Contributors: Garr, Doug
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780061363863
Subjects: Food; Marketing; Food habits; Food industry and trade; Obesity
Description: A food industry insider blows the whistle on American food corporations, discussing how the boardroom decisions and slick marketing machines of restaurant chains and food packagers have spurred the obesity epidemic and created the nation's most serious health crisis.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: A boxcar full of turkeys; title: How food executives think; title: What grocers don't want you to know; title: The people behind the menu; title: How purchasing agents make us fat; title: Nobody wants to be told what to eat; title: Let them eat cupcakes; title: The nanny state versus the restaurant lobby; title: The consumer conundrum; title: Foodonomics; title: Stealth health; title: Future foods; title: How big brother can (really) help; title: The quest for healthier food; title: Epilogue: full circle.